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Re:The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More... by laretluval on Saturday April 22, 2017 @11:29PM (#14176315)
> the papers that are wrong are probably not the most highly publicized ones or the ones in the most prestigious journals

If you google around about the replication crisis you will discover that the opposite is true.

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Re:The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More... by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday April 23, 2017 @12:21AM (#14176481)
This is a fairly good example of the sorts of biases one even finds among scientists: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/37566392...
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